James Daly

James Daly is a veteran journalist and entrepreneur who has launched successful magazines for TED Curator Chris Anderson (Business 2.0) and filmmaker George Lucas (Edutopia), serving as Editor in Chief on both. As Editor in Chief of TED Books, he created a new ebook platform aligned with the TED conference. He assigned and edited stories, developed a new iOS app, integrated multimedia and art into books, and managed a geographically dispersed creative team that produced a new 15,000-word ebook every two weeks. He also built a social media strategy and worked on business development to put TED Books on Kindle, iBookstore and Nook platforms. The TED Books team produced more than 35 ebooks — including the Top Rated Kindle Single for more than 10 months — and created a subscription-based distribution platform in which more than 20,000 subscribers downloaded 200,000 books. Daly has also served as a Features Editor at Wired, where he was the lead editor on cover stories that helped gain the magazine the National Magazine Award for General Excellence, and was Senior Editor at Forbes ASAP, as well as a new media columnist for both Rolling Stone and the San Francisco Chronicle. He was Editor in Chief of Red Herring and Greatschools.org, and has written for a number of publications including the Los Angeles Times, Spin, and ID. He received his Bachelor of Science, cum laude, in Journalism and Economics from Boston University. He also has a degree from the New England School of Photography, and has done postgraduate work in economics and international relations at Harvard University. His projects have received more than two dozen editorial awards and been featured in "Magazine Designs That Work"(Rockport Publishing). He is the co-author of “2030: A Day in The Life of Tomorrow’s Kids” (Dutton), a book created for school children designed to get them excited about the world they will inhabit (and help create) as adults.